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• joint venture
  joint venture

  noun

  a business enterprise in which two or more companies enter a temporary partnership. JV, J.V.
• joint-venture
  joint-venture

  verb (used without object)

  to establish or enter a joint venture or partnership.

joint venture

¹ American  

noun

• joint ventures
  plural

1. a business enterprise in which two or more companies enter a temporary partnership. JV, J.V.

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joint-venture ² American  

[joint-ven-cher] / ˈdʒɔɪntˈvɛn tʃər /

verb (used without object)

joint-ventured, joint-venturing

1. to establish or enter a joint venture or partnership.

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verb (used with object)

joint-ventured, joint-venturing

1. to establish or run as a joint venture.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• joint venturer
  noun
• joint venturing
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• joint ventures
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of joint-venture

First recorded in 1870–75

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Example Sentences

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Bugatti is part of Bugatti Rimac, a joint venture in which Croatia's Rimac Group holds a 55 percent stake.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Volkswagen has invested heavily in a newer joint venture to develop and produce the kind of technology-packed EVs Chinese consumers now buy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

GM in August extended its own key Chinese joint venture by another 20 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Distributed by Fathom Entertainment — the joint venture of AMC Entertainment Holdings, Regal Cinemas, and Cinemark Holdings — “Wildwood” opened in just over 2,900 North American theatres.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

When the goods are sold or the project is finished, the joint venture ends.

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

The lower sales were primarily driven by the conversion of Starbucks sites in China to a licensed joint-venture model.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

VW CEO Oliver Blume said in April of this year that Volkswagen was considering sharing spare European factory capacity with Chinese joint-venture partners.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Given that its joint-venture partner GSK has raised its HIV sales guidance, the U.S. bank expects the trend of strong HIV royalties to continue throughout the fiscal year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

FICO’s main competition in mortgage scoring is the VantageScore, a joint-venture of credit bureaus Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian.

From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026

Intel investors have been reacting positively to its recent announcement of a change to a joint-venture arrangement — and another a similar catalyst may be on the horizon.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026

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